“Masters 1000 events are incredibly important”: Sinner’s team response on speculation he may skip one this summer

Jannik Sinner and his coaching team have not yet turned its attention to the back half of the Masters 1000 season, despite coach Darren Cahill confirming that an unprecedented sweep of all nine events remains a live possibility, next steps being Montreal (2-13 August) and Cincinnati (13-23 August).

Sinner has won every Masters 1000 tournament he has entered in 2026 – Indian Wells, Miami, Monte-Carlo, Madrid and Rome – leaving him four events from a feat no player has ever managed in the same calendar year, starting with the Canadian Masters in Montreal next month.

“We’ll decide whether to play Montreal and Cincinnati, whether to play only Montreal, or only Cincinnati” Sinner said in Italian after his Wimbledon triumph. “There are a lot of options right now. Right now the most important thing for me is to switch off completely… living a normal life, and then when it starts again, all the focus comes back to what’s ahead.”

The Masters 1000 events are incredibly important, and we have full intention to make sure that we put him in the best position to do well.

Cahill noted the calendar itself gives the team more room than it had twelve months ago, when he skipped the event. “There is a difference between Canada last year compared to this year,” he said. “There were only two weeks last year, so the compressed schedule made it really difficult if you made it through to the final weekend at Wimbledon to go up and front up for Canada. There’s three weeks this year. We’ll sit down as a team and work out what his schedule is moving forward.”

He was clear, though, that the Masters 1000 level would not be treated as an afterthought regardless of how the calendar falls. “The Masters 1000 events are incredibly important, and we have full intention to make sure that we put him in the best position to do well,” Cahill said.

second player, after Novak Djokovic, to win every Masters 1000

Asked whether that record would shape his scheduling from here, coach Simone Vagnozzi had been less affirmative just before, saying the subject had not yet come up. “We didn’t think about Montreal and Cincinnati right now,” he said. “For sure the Masters 1000 level is really important after this, so we are gonna speak tonight, probably tomorrow, and we will see how we plan the schedule.”

Sinner became only the second player, after Novak Djokovic, to win every Masters 1000 title on offer when he completed the set in Rome in May. A win in Montreal would put him five from nine with two months of hard-court tennis still to come before the season turns to Asia and the european indoor season.